Wall Street moved higher Wednesday, capping a strong run in January and clinching the Dow’s best winning streak since 1959.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 72 points to 26,149. The S&P 500 advanced 1.7 points to 2,824. The Nasdaq Composite was up 9 points at 7,411.

The Dow and S&P notched their best month in nearly two years. The indexes also posted their 10th consecutive monthly gains—the strongest run in nearly 60 years. The Nasdaq has seven straight monthly gains to its credit.

_________________The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H. L. Mencken

I’m totally okay calling this Trump’s economy at this point. I mean who cares because the average worker is still getting screwed and Trump did inherit a stock market that was already humming (despite wages remaining stagnant) but it’s his. Fine. Sink or swim, it’s his. Go Trump!!

_________________It's only a matter of time before this thing blows up in our faces.

People mock folks who whine about Fake News just like the authoritarian Goose said he supported because Trump appointed a "conservative" to the SCOTUS who Goose thinks will be the deciding vote to end abortion.

Goose and others of his ilk are willing to give up American style democracy and support a political party and ideas that puts being a "conservative" and/or a Republican above being an American in favor of an independent judiciary. Trump has never been a fan of democracy.

Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt study the rise of authoritarianism Post WW2 and have authored the new book "How Democracies Die.

Here are four of their criteria:The four markers are:

Rejecting or showing weak commitment to democratic rules.

Denying the legitimacy of political opponents.

Encouraging or tolerating violence.

A readiness to stifle or limit civil liberties of opponents, including media.

Trump is 4 for 4 and if you pay attention to how quickly he pivoted to decry the FBI as untrustworthy anyone with a clue should be very concerned where Trump and the GOP majority are heading.

GRR Spartan wrote:People mock folks who whine about Fake News just like the authoritarian Goose said he supported because Trump appointed a "conservative" to the SCOTUS who Goose thinks will be the deciding vote to end abortion.

Goose and others of his ilk are willing to give up American style democracy and support a political party and ideas that puts being a "conservative" and/or a Republican above being an American in favor of an independent judiciary. Trump has never been a fan of democracy.

Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt study the rise of authoritarianism Post WW2 and have authored the new book "How Democracies Die.

Here are four of their criteria:The four markers are:

Rejecting or showing weak commitment to democratic rules.

Denying the legitimacy of political opponents.

Encouraging or tolerating violence.

A readiness to stifle or limit civil liberties of opponents, including media.

Trump is 4 for 4 and if you pay attention to how quickly he pivoted to decry the FBI as untrustworthy anyone with a clue should be very concerned where Trump and the GOP majority are heading.

There’s an NPR show called here and now and they were interviewed on Friday. Check it out if you get the chance. They are pretty optimistic dudes actually. Which surprises me.

_________________It's only a matter of time before this thing blows up in our faces.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I’m old enough to remember when a headline like “adding a trillion dollars to the debt for no particular reason and the most since the recession” was enough of a doozy for goose. Simpler doozy times.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I’m old enough to remember when a headline like “adding a trillion dollars to the debt for no particular reason and the most since the recession” was enough of a doozy for goose. Simpler doozy times.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I’m old enough to remember when a headline like “adding a trillion dollars to the debt for no particular reason and the most since the recession” was enough of a doozy for goose. Simpler doozy times.

lol, it's the Dems turn to care about deficits. When the Dems control the House the R's will care again. You know how that shit goes. All liars, all hypocrites. Except for a very few. You know, like those people that call $3,000 bonuses "crumbs".....

_________________The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H. L. Mencken

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I’m old enough to remember when you wouldn’t give a fuck

lol, it's the Dems turn to care about deficits. When the Dems control the House the R's will care again. You know how that shit goes. All liars, all hypocrites. Except for a very few. You know, like those people that call $3,000 bonuses "crumbs".....

Lol where did we get to $3,000 from? I thought it was $1,000.

And let’s not forget that we’re actually caring about $1.50 a paycheck according to your pal Paul ryan.

Also I don’t necessarily care about deficits depending on the circumstances. If you have to ring up a bit of a debt to stop a depression, sure. If you have to ring up a bit of a debt because your wealthy donors that people like you suckle at the teat of demand it... well, that’s different. At the end of the day you’re nothing but a pawn for a bunch of rich people to get more money and they pull the abortion string whenever they need you to vote again (and never actually cut the string because God knows they would never hurt the golden goose) It’s really kinda pathetic but you fall for it every single time.

_________________I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed.

Remember all the fanfare GM and Trump gathered for him threatening to drop a tariff on vehicles from Mexico and how gm will be adding jobs? Yeah, they went from 53,600 hourly workers to 50,100 from January 2017 to January 2018......